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5 unusual facts about Houghton Hall


Houghton Hall

Danish artist Jeppe Hein created a "Water Flame" sculpture/fountain for this garden.

Scottish artist Anya Gallaccio has created a sarcophagus-like marble structure which is sited at the end of a path; and nearby is a copper-beech hedge which is planted in lines mirroring Sybil’s signature.

Houghton Hall, Yorkshire

He succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Manton in 1968 and in 1980 was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Humberside.

James Turrell

At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned a folly to the east of the great house.

Jeppe Hein

At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned an "artlandish" folly in a scale appropriate for a five-acre walled garden.


George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford

Resident at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, between 1751 and 1791 he served as High Steward of King's Lynn, recently but by then no longer the nation's third most important port because of the expansion of transatlantic trade from the west coast, and also High Steward of Yarmouth then a major fishing port.

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, PC (8 December 1678 – 5 February 1757), English diplomatist, was a son of Robert Walpole of Houghton, Norfolk, and a younger brother of the Prime Minister of Great Britain Sir Robert Walpole.

Robert Uvedale

After his death Uvedale's growing plants were mostly sold to Sir Robert Walpole for his collection at Houghton Hall his herbarium, in fourteen thick volumes, forms vols.


see also

Dealtry Charles Part

He lived at Houghton Hall, Houghton Regis Bedfordshire, and was Joint Master of the Hertfordshire Hounds.